Latest News Briefs – Page 204
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Ara AG, the holding company of Ara Shoes, Lloyd, Legero and Salamander,...
Ara AG, the holding company of Ara Shoes, Lloyd, Legero and Salamander, has decided no longer to exhibit at the Gallery Shoes and Expo Riva Schuh trade shows in Düsseldorf and Riva del Garda. According to Resimir Zovak, sales director at Ara, the company has realigned its trade show strategy and will ...
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The Prada group has entered a five-year energy agreement with...
The Prada group has entered a five-year energy agreement with an Italian company, Metaenergia, for the supply of green energy. The contract, which covers all the fashion house's industrial and commercial sites in Italy, is expected to reduce CO² emissions by over 20,000 tons a year. Prada will also study ...
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The Center for Footwear Technology Research (CTCR) in La Rioja,...
The Center for Footwear Technology Research (CTCR) in La Rioja, Spain, has tested the effectiveness of used coffee grounds as an antibacterial agent in shoes. CTCR tested five different types of coffee, recycled from restaurants across the region of La Rioja. Spain is a country of coffee drinkers, with adults ...
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Toms Shoes, the American brand famous for donating a pair of...
Toms Shoes, the American brand famous for donating a pair of shoes or prescription eyeglasses for every pair of shoes or eyeglasses sold, is now one of 2,700 B-Corp companies in 150 industries and 60 countries. So-called B-Corp companies are explicitly committed to sustainability and the common good. Toms Shoes manufactures ...
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Lyst, a global metasearch platform for fashion, has launched what...
Lyst, a global metasearch platform for fashion, has launched what it calls the Sneaker Intelligence Unit. The company has recruited a network of “sneaker experts” by administering an online test and, for those who score at least 80 percent, a “'mastery' stage challenge.” Lyst then solicits opinions from these experts ...
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Capital, the monthly business magazine published in Hamburg, has declared...
Capital, the monthly business magazine published in Hamburg, has declared that the Deichmann Group has one of best employee-training programs in Germany. Deichmann's program was rated “very good” among some 700 other candidates. The magazine signaled out the program's specialist content, overseas opportunities for new recruits, regular feedback, workshops, mentoring, ...
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Foot Locker has invested $2 million in Pensole Inc., which...
Foot Locker has invested $2 million in Pensole Inc., which runs the Pensole Footwear Design Academy. Founded in 2010 by D'Wayne Edwards, former director of design at Nike's Jordan Brand, Pensole offers prospective footwear designers free tuition and a learn-by-doing curriculum. Some 400 alumni are currently at work in the ...
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Skechers USA has begun to expand its headquarters in California....
Skechers USA has begun to expand its headquarters in California. The project, overseen by David Forbes Hibbert of DFH Architects, will feature a design center of 100,000 square feet, add new executive offices along the Pacific Coast Highway in Hermosa Beach, double the offices, design studios and showrooms in the ...
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Wortmann, the German shoe producer that owns the Tamaris, Jana, Caprice,...
Wortmann, the German shoe producer that owns the Tamaris, Jana, Caprice, Be Natural and Marco Tozzi brands of footwear, has signed a new licensing deal with Meier Lederwaren, the leathergoods maker in Offenbach, Germany, for its product line of bags. The contract with Tamaris Accessories, of Obertshausen, will end on Nov. ...
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The chairman and chief executive of Tod's, Diego Della Valle,...
The chairman and chief executive of Tod's, Diego Della Valle, has struck a deal with the French bank Crédit Agricole to buy a 5.13 percent interest in the Italian luxury shoe company controlled by his family, lifting their stake to 65.8 percent. According to a filing with the Italian stock ...
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Timberland appointed Marc Martin to the newly created position of...
Timberland appointed Marc Martin to the newly created position of field sales manager for Germany, Austria and Switzerland on Jan. 1. In addition to overseeing all product categories sold in specialist stores in those countries, Martin will lead Timberland's entire specialist trade team for German-speaking countries. He will report directly ...
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Müller Meirer, a German manufacturer of leathergoods and leather shoes,...
Müller Meirer, a German manufacturer of leathergoods and leather shoes, recently assigned Uwe Janzen to the newly created position of sales director for shoes and international sales. The 59-year-old will be responsible for developing new export markets and expanding the footwear segment. Müller Meirer has specialized in leathergoods licensing for such brands ...
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Satra has announced that Austin Simmons, its chief executive, is...
Satra has announced that Austin Simmons, its chief executive, is planning to retire later this year. John Hooker, the current deputy chief executive, will take over as chief executive in the summer. Simmons joined Satra in 1996. He became assistant director in 2002, taking on responsibilities for a number of ...
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Delphine Arnault is the second women to have joined the...
Delphine Arnault is the second women to have joined the 12-member executive committee of LVMH, the luxury goods group run by her father, Bernard Arnault. The group indicates that it made this choice because of her product awareness and her close connection with young designers. Born in 1975, she joined ...
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Uwe Staudiger has been appointed by the Austrian-based Legero United...
Uwe Staudiger has been appointed by the Austrian-based Legero United group as country manager for Germany. He will also be responsible for a new Central Region that comprises the German-speaking countries, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. He is taking over some of the responsibilities of Josef Renner, who is leaving ...
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On Jan. 1, Andreas Knipper joined the sales team at SPM...
On Jan. 1, Andreas Knipper joined the sales team at SPM Shoetrade, the Dutch shoe-trading company that recently entered into a European joint venture with the Steve Madden brand. Knipper was made key account manager for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The 48-year-old held the same position at Idana Schuhe from 2008 ...
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Vibram, inventor of the glove-like FiveFingers shoe, has made Burten...
Vibram, inventor of the glove-like FiveFingers shoe, has made Burten Distribution the exclusive U.S. distributor for its Furoshiki line of footwear. The Furoshiki shoe, also known as the Wrapping Sole, takes inspiration from the Japanese art of furoshiki, in which a given object is wrapped with a single length of ...
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Etos, Brandt Software-Produkte and Ariston Informatik, in cooperation with the...
Etos, Brandt Software-Produkte and Ariston Informatik, in cooperation with the German Shoe and Leathergoods Industry Association (HDS/L), are about to launch a joint project: the “SPOCC – Single Point of Content and Communication” platform. The SPOCC was created in May 2018 as an alliance between industry representatives and technology partners. ...
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Eram, the French footwear retailer, is testing a new service...
Eram, the French footwear retailer, is testing a new service of home delivery. The pilot project, in partnership with Shopopop, is being tested in Nantes, a city with a population of around 300,000 in the western part of the country. The service is offered in cases in which the customer ...
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Ricosta has announced its decision to withdraw from the direct...
Ricosta has announced its decision to withdraw from the direct distribution of its products to Amazon, starting with the next autumn/winter collection. The German children's footwear specialist says it want to strengthen its retail partners, supporting their omni-channel activities and enabling better planning. The company said the move follows the ...
